Arrested and Charged: Coast Guard Ex-Officer Accused of Threatening President Trump's Life
A bloke named Peter Stinson, hailing from Oakton, Virginia, and known for his superior marksmanship skills in the Coast Guard, was nabbed on Monday for hurling a barrage of violent threats towards ex-President Donald Trump, as per recently unveiled court records.
Stinson is a former US Coast Guard officer, who retired in 2021, and also taught Incident Command Systems for FEMA, according to his criminal complaint.
Prosecutors assert that he was also a self-proclaimed Antifa member and used his Bluesky and X accounts to peddle numerous menacing posts targeting Trump from 2020 through 2025. Take, for example, a 2020 exchange where an X user wrote, "somebody ought sue [Trump's] a off," to which Stinson retorted, "somebody ought to do more than sue the orange m *** f's a," and then added, "it involves a rifle and a scope, but I can't talk about it here."
He also shared, "I'd be willing to pitch in $100 for a contract. Who wants to join me?" and "We could solve the solvable part of this problem in a crack. Then, we can focus on the coronavirus itself."
The complaint abounds with other instances of Stinson replying with aggressive language, offering to "pull the trigger" to eliminate Trump or suggesting he'd be the "driver" if someone else was keen on assassinating him.
His threatening posts were said to persist during the 2024 election cycle, and post-the Butler assassination attempt on Trump, he wrote messages including, "Most of us are not capable. As noted before, I'm not a good enough shot. Very few people are. Somebody needs to learn this lesson... You want to play in the big leagues, you need the talent. Luck is not a plan... Execution is critical."
Stinson hasn't entered a plea to the charges and was detained by a magistrate judge in Virginia on Monday, with a detention hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
Peter Stinson, a former Coastie with a knack for sharpshooting, stands accused of continually threatening to whack Donald Trump via social media over a stretch of around five years, from 2020 to mid-2025. Authorities allege that this former service member self-identified as an Antifa member and spun violent rhetoric and assassination references across platforms like Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Reddit.
Feds, among them the FBI and a joint terrorism task force, paint Stinson as an Antifa affiliate. His online posts contained bellicose language and straight-up assassination calls. Examples include a 2020 comment like, "Yes, I would pull the trigger. Would you?", and a 2024 message after an attack on Trump, which said, "If you're going to do something big, get it right," followed by a winking emoticon. In March 2025, he posted, "He needs to be luigi'ed," a term investigators interpret as tantamount to assassination, and employed the numeral "8647," which is believed to signal the removal of the 47th president (Trump).
Stinson's social media activity and menacing threats have been the crux of his arrest and indictment. Following his arrest, a federal judge ordered GPS tracking and home detention for him pending the trial's outcome, despite the DOJ's objections. To put it simply, Peter Stinson, an ex-Coast Guard lieutenant, is alleged to have mercilessly threatened Donald Trump, with authorities connecting him to extreme leftist rhetoric and self-labeling as an Antifa member, leading to his ongoing federal prosecution.
- The former Coast Guard officer, Peter Stinson, is currently under federal prosecution for allegedly using his social media platforms to threaten the ex-President Donald Trump for over five years, from 2020 to mid-2025.
- Stinson, who is also accused of being an Antifa member, reportedly used incendiary language and assassination references across various social media platforms like Bluesky, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and Reddit, leading to his arrest and indictment.
